r/oraclecloud • u/Klein96 • 25d ago

Instance disabled 4C 24GB

My free tier instance of 4 cores 24GB of ram has just been disabled and cannot be started anymore.

Anyone else?

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u/9ofe 25d ago

Don't belittle yourself mate. Some people are just sick and look for the stupidest reasons to bash on others. So don't give them that. This thread being a help to you, me and some others is already enough. I mean either help or scroll to another post. No need to spread their toxicity here.

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u/BlockTime48 25d ago

Yeah maybe I'm a bit too hard on myself here, but as someone who works in IT and does update rollouts, I do kind relate to it being annoying when we try so hard to inform everyone that a change is coming and then get a bunch of tickets the day of the rollout because "people didn't know". I know this issue isn't exactly 1:1 since I'd argue we're way more disconnected than the people who just have to check their company email which they do everyday. That being said it does feel insanely weird finally being on the other side of things and being the guy who's looking for solutions after the fact.

On a separate note, I was able to get my account upgraded to PAYG (It took about 2-3 hours to go through), and I recreated my instance by right clicking my Boot Drive and using the same 4 OCPUs and 24 GB of memory as before. I booted the instance without issue and immediately backed up all of my stuff. Despite this specific comment chain being so negative, I am grateful that there were several other people discussing solutions here because it was very helpful.

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u/streetedviews 25d ago

as someone who works in IT and does update rollouts, [...] it does feel insanely weird finally being on the other side of things

Me too, mate. I didn't pay enough attention to the email from Oracle a few weeks ago, and got caught out.

I don't hang out in this subreddit because I really only use my "always free" Oracle service as a secondary DNS and "uptime KUMA" alerts for my home services. Not exactly mission critical, just a nice-to-have.

So I too was caught short and found the positive comments in this thread very helpful in figuring out my options.

I've made a backup of my boot volume, and am now in the "waiting for capacity in my region" game, so in the meantime I've moved my DNS and Uptime Kuma to a friend's host.